From RR

• British police chief: decriminalise cannabis. I thought in the UK now small amounts are legal.
• The Constitution Party ‘useless’. Like the Tea Party now, I hold them at arm’s length for similar reasons (I’m not getting into the Protestant right’s crusade) but they’re less objectionable than the Tea Party.
• Can you steer the Tea Party to libertarianism?
• Right, we’re selling $60 billion worth of advanced weapons to the country most of the 9/11 hijackers came from because our régime (Israel really) now hates Iran. (I guess that ‘Ayatollah A**ahola’ T-shirt’s back in style.) Game plan: keep yammering about the Ground Zero mosque and maybe the proles won’t notice.
• LRC pick: ‘I work for the government. What depression? Things have never been better for me.’
• The GOP’s trying to impress you by boasting it outliberals the Dems. Whatever. As Arturo says, as with some other things (Anglicanism for example) I’ve arrived and settled into the ‘f*ck it’ stage regarding party politics.
• How inequality shapes our lives.
• The real lesson of state schools. ‘We’re all in boot camp’ essentially. Control and conform. Or uncoincidentally schools and prisons look a lot alike. Arguably they’re not really set up to help disabled kids actually learn or enable the smart kids not interested in their agenda.
• Third parties.

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